Meredith Bergmann

Meredith Bergmann is an American sculptor, poet, and essayist[1] whose work is said to "forge enriching links between the past and the concerns of the present."[2] She studied at Wesleyan University and graduated from The Cooper Union with a BFA. While at Cooper Union she discovered sculpture and spent several years traveling around Europe and studying in Pietrasanta, Italy. Her memorial to Countee Cullen is in the collection of the New York Public Library. In 2003, she unveiled the Boston Women's Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston which includes statues of Phillis Wheatley, Abigail Adams, and Lucy Stone.[3] In 2006, Bergmann's statue of the famous contralto Marian Anderson was unveiled on the campus of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.[4] In 2010, Bergmann created a sculpture of a slave girl named Sally Maria Diggs, or "Pinky," whose freedom was purchased for $900 in 1860.[5] Bergmann also completed a commission commemorating the events of September 11, 2001 for New York City's Cathedral of St. John the Divine entitled Memorial to September 11.[6]

Women's Rights Pioneers Monument

On August 26, 2020, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote, her Women's Rights Pioneers Monument was dedicated in Central Park, New York City. Commissioned by Monumental Women, it portrays and honors suffragists Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is Central Park's first statue depicting real women. The foundry responsible in delivering the work is UAP (formerly named Polich Tallix.) [7]

Selected exhibitions

2018 Breaking the Bronze Ceiling, NY State Museum, Albany NY 2017 National Sculpture Society 84thAnnual, Brookgreen Gardens, SC 2016 The Christa Project, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY 2011 Migrations, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY September 11th, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NY 2010 Artist and Artifact, Brooklyn Historical Society, NY The Great Nude Invitational, NYC 1996 Biography Memorials, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY 1993 Surprise!, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1992 Growing Up, West Side YMCA, NYC[8]

Awards

2019 Augustus St. Gaudens Artistic Achievement Award, The Cooper Union 2017 Proskauer Prize, National Sculpture Society 2008 Brooklyn Historical Society Residency 2003 Grand Circle Foundation for Boston Women’s Memorial 2002 Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund for Boston Women’s Memorial 2001 Barbara Lee Family Foundation for Boston Women’s Memorial 1997 Fellowship for Sculpture, New York Foundation for the Arts 1983 Fellowship for Sculpture, New Jersey State Council On the Arts 1982 Project Grant, New York State Council On the Arts 1977 The Eliot Lash Award for Sculpture, The Cooper Union[9]

References
  1. "Profile registry | National September 11 Memorial & Museum". www.911memorial.org. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  2. http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2007&iss=2&cat=featured_artist&page=featured_artist
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-13. Retrieved 2010-06-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.meredithbergmann.com
  5. http://thewritinglife-nysoclib.blogspot.com/2010/11/meredith-bergmanns-sculpture.html
  6. "Highlights of the Fabric - Art - Programs - Cathedral of Saint John the Divine". www.stjohndivine.org. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  7. "Central Park Monuments - Women's Rights Pioneers Monument : NYC Parks". www.nycgovparks.org. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  8. https://meredithbergmann.com/about/
  9. https://meredithbergmann.com/about/


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